A PARAPHRASED LECTURETEXT ABOUT Benjamin Boretz' UN(-) :

[clears throat]

Outside there once was a Dragon, a Lady, a Knight, a Rose, a Stone, an Oboe, a Tooth, a Poet, and this was on an Island in an Ocean 10,000 years ago. Beneath the Island, Void; above the Tooth, Sky.

Such is the way of a sounding,

Such is the way of a speaking,

the way of that which is sought in order to sound a thinking:

Such is UN(-), a music for mystic orchestra.